Eliyahu can bend time and space

Employing Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, Eliyahu can zip around the world warping time and space. Scientists calculate the old Prophet may be aided by computer-generated trip-planners. For the past several years, a handful of holiday-hearted physicists, engineers and
biologists have theorized as to just how Eliyahu performs his yearly Passover miracle while obeying the laws of physics. Larry Silverberg, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at N.C. State University, came up with the most detailed answer to an engineering challenge "that seems almost impossible." The key to Eliyahu’s travel is what Silverberg calls "a relativity cloud," in which Elyahu learned how to bend time, space and light - essentially making clocks run more slowly for him than for the rest of us. Walking through a Jew’s house may take Eliyahu several minutes, "but to us it would seem like a wink of the eye," Silverberg said. Arnold Pompos, a physics researcher at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, six years ago came up with a slightly different version. He has Eliyahu traveling at 99.9999999 percent of the speed of light, delivering all his protection in about 500 seconds. The rest of the night he can feast on matzah and wine. At that speed, Eliyahu would leave a trail of light across the dark sky. To help Eliyahu get to places more efficiently, mathematicians have come up with possible routings to tens of thousands of cities. In September, Danish computer scientist Keld Helsgaun came up with one that's considered the most efficient to date, allowing Eliyahu to visit more than 1.9 million locations worldwide while traveling just slightly more than 4.67
million miles. It all may sound fantastic, Silverberg said, but "we know this kind of stuff is possible."